Friday Links!

* CFP: 21st Century Englishes Graduate Student Conference. CFP: Premodern Ecologies. CFP: 41st Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, “Harbors and Islands: Explorations of Utopia, Past and Present.” CFP: To the Ends of the Earth.

* TGIF: These Are the Most Serious Catastrophic Threats Faced by Humanity.

* Toward a New Theory of the Bad Dad and Husband. Next time, Slate, say it to my face!

* I’m adding Professor of Future Crimes to my supervillain flourish, right after “Master of Magnetism.”

* Meanwhile, in crimes against the future: Evidence points to widespread loss of ocean oxygen by 2030s. That’s bad.

* Mother driving down Milwaukee highway is shot dead by two-year-old son in backseat.
* Wisconsin Ranks 48th In Nation In Arts Spending.

* Octavia Butler and Beyoncé.

* Nintendo’s next console is coming March 2017, and Zelda along with it.

* Socialism and Fantasy: China Miéville’s Fables of Race and Class.

* Last Year’s Hugo Award Drama Is Not Going Away Any Time Soon.

* Imre Szeman: From Petrocultures to Other Cultures.

* Mind F*ck Alert: Plants May Have Memories.

* Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Oh My God You’re Terrible: Hastert becomes the single most powerful member of the House. He uses that power to earmark money for a project that vastly increases the value of land he secretly owns. This gives him the millions he will need to buy silence from some he sexually abused as a youth, thus enabling him to stay in power for years.

* How To Cheat For 20 Years In The NCAA And (Almost) Get Away With It. Who’s Going to Be Punished for the Worst Academic Scandal Anyone Can Remember?

* In Florida prisons, mentally ill inmates have been tortured, driven to suicide, and killed by guards.

* On being undocumented at Marquette.

* There comes Hamilton: The Movie.

* Words are the Weapons, the Weapons Must Go: The Cuban Revolution and the American Left.

* Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek.

* UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi on investigatory leave due to ‘serious questions.’

* Bioviva press release announces Bioviva is great: Elizabeth Parrish, CEO of Bioviva USA Inc. has become the first human being to be successfully rejuvenated by gene therapy, after her own company’s experimental therapies reversed 20 years of normal telomere shortening.

* “When debating women’s “frailty” was worthy of a ticketed event in the gym: 1929 flyer for MU/ Harvard debate.”

* Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

* The war on elephants.

* How Medicaid forces families like mine to stay poor.

* Over 9,000 Years Later, Kennewick Man Will Be Given a Native American Burial.

* The First Neoliberals.

* LEGO Imperial Star Destroyer: the ISD Tyrant.

* Grant Morrison’s Superman Stories: A Reconfigured Reading Order.

* Mother’s Day gets the mother of all critical maulings.

* When Your Dream Project Is A Financial Failure: Disney’s Treasure Planet.